We were sitting over there with a country in a downfall, in a slow motion downfall.

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Preventing and ending armed conflicts, stabilizing and rebuilding failed or failing States these are huge and complex tasks.

Now in Bulgaria this photograph was taken in Bulgaria when communism collapsed all over Eastern Europe, it wasn't just communism it was the state that collapsed as well.

There are three broader lessons of Diamond s demise at Barclays.

To some extent Japan and Eastern European countries after the fall of communism followed the same path.

When the apartheid regime was defeated, the Cubans took home only the mortal remains of our fighters.

They have been detached from their people, from the masses, and now we are seeing them collapsing one after the other.

We did it so fast we weren't prepared for their collapse.

Turkey has never been colonized, so it remained as an independent nation after the fall of the Ottoman Empire.

That summer I'm all I'm at Warner that summer I'm all excited to work on convergence, and then the bottom falls out.

Despite its brutality, the Assad government retains a substantial base of supporters who are willing to fight to the death to prevent the regime s collapse. Indeed, many Syrians believe that they have no future if Assad s government collapses a belief that has been reinforced as the civil war s dividing lines have become increasingly sectarian.

After the fall of the tyrant and the pillars of his regime, the institutions of Government began slowly to be rehabilitated and re established by Iraqis.

Yet North Korea s world defying belligerency is not utter madness. Rather, it is a by product of its own acute fears of regime collapse.

MADRID After long years of failed international efforts to end Iran s cunning drive to develop nuclear weapons, the question today is no longer whether the West can prevent the nuclearization of Iran s military arsenal, but whether the Islamic regime collapses first. Unfortunately, if it does not, the only option for stopping Iran is war and war is a very bad option.

While Eastern Europe and the Commonwealth of Independent States are the fastest growing region, some of the economies of Eastern Europe and Central Asia have not yet fully recovered since the collapse of communism.

In business, in turning around a corporation that has collapsed, dealing with outstanding debt is only part of the problem, because that represents only one side of the balance sheet.

the party vanished, overnight, as if all of a sudden a giant sponge had drained the entire sea, Adriatic and Austral, leaving litter and clots of mud, and all the boats stranded. How can you go home again if the sea has been sucked down a vast drain that opened up beneath it, emptying it who knows where, into a void?

That request is made on the premise that, following the collapse of communism in Eastern Europe and in the Soviet Union, the new States that emerged therefrom expressed their desire to become sovereign and independent Members of the United Nations.

The flow of the water was strong enough to wash away the bridge.

There is nobody we can't take down.

They almost brought the entire financial system down.

Lehman Brothers goes down, the whole lot collapses.

The Glass Steagall Act which was really to protect us from the kind of thing that caused the recession to happen, and the bank meltdown and all that stuff that required the bailouts that was put in effect in 1933, was systematically destroyed.

Now, when your state is collapsing, your economy is heading south at a rate of knots, the last people you want coming on to the labor market are 14,000 men and women whose chief skills are surveillance, are smuggling, building underground networks and killing people.

In 1989, after the fall of the communist regime in former Czechoslovakia, the author, as sole heir, sought restitution of his father's property, and in 1995, sought to renew his parents' applications for restoration of Czech citizenship.

Over a few days, the Tunisian regime that invested billions of dollars in the security agencies, billions of dollars in maintaining, trying to maintain, its prisons, collapsed, disappeared, because of the voices of the public.

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NEW YORK Next year will mark the twentieth anniversary of the collapse of communism in Europe. Liberated from the complexity of knowing too much about the cruel past, the young people of Eastern Europe s post communist generation seem uninterested in what their parents and grandparents endured.

NEW YORK Next year will mark the twentieth anniversary of the collapse of communism in Europe. Liberated from the complexity of knowing too much about the cruel past, the young people of Eastern Europe s post communist generation seem uninterested in what their parents and grandparents endured.

This bell is made from metal from a defused landmine, from the killing fields of Pol Pot one of the most evil regimes in human history where people are now beginning to put their lives back together after the regime has crumbled.

New elections are not due until 2009. To be sure, a political crisis can bring the coalition down, but this can happen only if Poland s wandering electorate decides that the PiS has let it down.

In the late 1990 s and the early years of this decade, the problems that incited fears of a dysfunctional state seemed to fade. But over the past 18 months, the specter of Weimar has once again begun to haunt Russia.

As a result, Palestinian leaders have for decades mobilized their society to outlast Israel. Indoctrination begins at a young age through family, education, and media, and later encourages more aggressive resistance, including terrorism.

In fact, since the fall of communism, the percentage decline in German industrial employment has been larger than in any other OECD country. In part, this was due to the decline in the former East Germany.

South Africa s largely peaceful transition to a multi racial democracy in the early 1990 s was a further advance for rights.

A factor that contributed to their demise was a shift in thinking that transformed the conflict between East and West away from one that emphasized economic systems. Instead, it was the contrast between totalitarianism and respect for rights that completely discredited the oppressive regimes linked to Moscow and helped to bring them down. South Africa s largely peaceful transition to a multi racial democracy in the early 1990 s was a further advance for rights.

The bank helped finance the rebuilding of what was otherwise a dying community.

If one kid plays store, and another one s playing house, then the whole kind of play falls down.

And finally, lots of people are saying that Yemen's revolution is going to break the country.

The obvious lesson to be drawn from 1979 is that America unwisely rested its entire strategic relationship with Iran on the shoulders of an unpopular dictator. When his regime crumbled, so did America s ability to realize its interests there.

The CCP, they insist, has proved its resilience since the Tiananmen crisis in 1989 and the collapse of Soviet communism in 1991. Why should predictions of the collapse of CCP rule be taken seriously now?